More In U.S. Back Traditional Social Security

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<snip> Polling Data

People have different opinions about how the Social Security system might be changed for the future. When decisions about Social Security’s future are being made, which do you think is more important?

Keeping Social Security as a program with a guaranteed monthly benefit based on a person’s earnings during their working life 65%

Letting younger workers decide for themselves how some of their own contributions to Social Security are invested, which would cause their future benefits to be higher or lower depending on how well their investments perform 29%

Both equally important 1%

Neither is important 1%

Don’t know / Refused 4%

Source: Princeton Survey Research Associates / Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 1,503 American adults, conducted from Jan. 5 to Jan. 9, 2005. Margin of error is 3 per cent.

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